BrowZine Features
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Make it possible to mark an article as "unread" again
It's not frequent, but sometimes I'll see an article I really like, click it and get the "Not available yet, try later" error. I'd like to keep it unread so I remember to go back it later, but apparently "once clicked, always read."
Not a big deal, just for your consideration. Thanks!
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Enable a user to have more than one library affiliation without logging out
This is a fairly common scenario for faculty and students who are in Medicine, for example, and who may have access to both resources available at a hospital library as well as a university.
25 votesunder review ·AdminJohn @ Third Iron Support (President, Third Iron Library Technologies) responded
We are investigating the possibilities of providing this feature!
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Add journals from all publishers and users will only get access to what their university subscribe to. They will get a turn away otherwise.
Add journals from all publishers and users will only get access to what their university subscribe to. They will get a turn away otherwise.
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to provide the possibility to make your selection of journals in a bookcase visible to other users of your institution
As an instructor or librarian you can for instance show students easily which scientific journals are of interest for a particular course or educational program.
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Provide support for adding non-library subscribed titles to My Bookshelf
A researcher may have individual subscriptions available to them and/or they are interested only in receiving TOC alerts for a title the library as a whole may not subscribe to. Provide a way to put these titles as well on My Bookshelf for easy access to these titles as well.
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Have the app indicate when I have reviewed a journal
put the date of the issue in the dropdown box under "Available Issues" of a journal. If I do not remember if a journal is monthly/weekly etc. then I have no idea of Issue 2, for example, is the one I have browsed or not without actually going through it again.
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Share shelfs with other users
It would be great if a user could have multiple shelfs and share shelfs with other users. Sharing both journals and specific articles. For example: A professor could compile a shelf for a specfic masters course and share it with the students.
49 votesunder review ·AdminJohn @ Third Iron Support (President, Third Iron Library Technologies) responded
We will be moving ahead with sharing Articles via the forthcoming “Reading List” feature. However, Sharing a “shelf” is still something we are considering the best options for. Will keep you posted!
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223 votes
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31 votes
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Add ability to link from TOC to publisher's website
A user suggested the ability to link right to the home page of the journal on the publisher's site in order to learn more about the journal as well as to potentially see other non-periodical content.
27 votesOur mistake on this one! Not all components of this feature are complete, so this was set to complete prematurely. Apologies for the mistake!
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We'd like this sorting enhancement, please...
Using the sorting option, titles with current full text would be displayed first, followed by embargoed content, with unsubscribed titles last.
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Sync items in my bookshelf to my favourites in Primo
As it is possible to integrate BrowZine within Primo it would be useful if article information saved to the my bookshelf could be synced to display in a users Primo my favourites area. Otherwise students will have to check 2 different accounts for saved items.
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Rename "My Bookshelf" to something like "Favorites"
The tab My Bookshelf is confusing to me. I feel like people will think they can search for our e-books using this platform. Is there way to change the name of that particular tab to something like Favorites or My Favorite Journals?
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5 votes
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Add a warning for deleting My Articles collections in the app.
When you delete a collection in BrowZine web, you get this message: Are you sure you want to delete collection "Collection Name"? This will permanently delete this collection and all the articles it contains.
Can a similar warning be added when you delete a collection from the app? I deleted one today on my iPad and didn't realize I'd lose any articles that weren't associated with another collection. You could also add something to the warning suggesting that users should move/copy articles to other collections if they don't want to lose the articles.
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1 vote
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Add functionality to import search results from e.g. Web of Science
This would greatly improve the workflow of going from query to full text article.
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Allow title page additions to shelves.
Allow titles to be added to book shelves from the list page, instead of forcing the user to go to the individual journal pages to add the title.
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Create Artificial Issues for continuously published titles like the Frontiers series
Doing so would make the titles much easier to browse.
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Switch Off Warnings
Allow user to switch off display of warnings, such as 'Authentication Failed' in the Preferences/User Settings. E.g. I know when I am on the intranet or not and what to expect in both cases, so no warning needed.
1 vote
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